Senior SRE: Core Platform & Embedded Reliability

CrowdStrike; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market-leading compensation

Equity awards

Paid time off

Parental and adoption leaves

Job summary

CrowdStrike is seeking a Principal SRE to join our Falcon platform, driving reliability across core services and libraries. You will work directly with product engineering to re-architect critical systems, build reusable components, and improve observability and automation at scale.

You will influence architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and collaborate across teams to deliver resilient backend systems with high performance while embracing an AI-driven security platform.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience building and operating distributed systems.
• 5+ years developing microservices for a SaaS product in a modern backend language (Go, Java, Scala, Kotlin, Python, Node.js).

Responsibilities

• Define and drive multi-year reliability roadmaps with engineering leadership.
• Design and implement architectural improvements to services, libraries, and platforms.
• Develop and maintain services that meet reliability and scalability demands.
• Lead initiatives around reliability, scalability, performance, and cost efficiency in large-scale distributed systems.
• Establish observability practices and define service-level objectives and error budgets.

Skills

Distributed systems

Go

Microservices

Java

AWS

Kubernetes

Education

Degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

Cassandra

Kafka

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

GCP

OCI

Job description

CrowdStrike is seeking a Principal SRE to join our Falcon platform, driving reliability across core services and libraries. You will work directly with product engineering to re-architect critical systems, build reusable components, and improve observability and automation at scale.

You will influence architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and collaborate across teams to deliver resilient backend systems with high performance while embracing an AI-driven security platform.